So with my Streets build in playable condition and ready to meet the needs of my regular D&D game, I'm setting my sights on my next campaign which will be Star Wars SAGA edition. Like my D&D game, what I mostly need is a pool of components big enough to make whatever I need for the session but since I've got a few months before the campaign starts, I've drawn up a shuttle bay in SketchUp that will serve as my first real Titan build.

But, there's a problem. I can't do it the easy way. Oh no. I put together what I wanted it to look like first and now I have a to-do list of Titan components that don't exist yet. So I'm gonna make em as I need em. Thank goodness for Photoshop!

So, before I get started with some actual photos, here are a few pictures showing the shuttle bay I plan to build:









Tan areas are floor tiles and stairs that I can use from the Titan set without any work. Dark green / grey areas are walls from the Titan set that can be used without any work.

Black areas are card box risers I'm making. Yellow areas are floor tiles I need to create, green areas are wall sections I need to create and white areas are props I need to create. Finally, the red sections are post to post connectors.

So my to do list looks something like this:

DONE - 3" and 6" horizontal post-to-post connectors
DONE - Double-height posts
DONE - 3" Double-height wall
DONE - 6" Double-height wall
6" Double-height wall with large airlock door
6" Wall with long window
6" Angled wall with long window
DONE - 6x6 Cargo lift tile
6x6 Shuttle lift / landing pad tile
Double-height ceiling support
DONE - 3" and 6" Freestanding rail
Landing / crash strip
DONE - Stairs with side rail

Hmm, yes, that ought to keep me busy for a while..

WEEK 1

So, good start. I find out that all the foamboard I've been using so far for my Streets build really is some crazy-ass foam-wood-board. My new sheets of foamboard arrived this week and my god it's so much easier to cut!

Used TheAuldGrump's pin idea to save on label printing for the templates and discovered that if I plan it right, my connector tabs get made automatically. Sweet! This week I made enough components to get the arrivals / departure lounge made up and already I've learned and modified a few things:

o) If you are prepared to double up on your door sections, the Firelight method of door making works quite well.
o) The 'lack' of 1" balconies isn't really a lack - you just cut them down to size.
o) The stairs don't have side rails. Poo. Will have to make my own

- and best of all -

o) Stairs can be easily modified to slot into the posts, thus, you don't need to mount then against flat sections of wall. Just cut four strips out of the side and back of the stair box and it slots right into the posts even if there are wall hangers already sitting in the posts. Maybe everyone already knew that? I didn't

Now for some pictures. Sorry for the bad quality. Shaky hands and camera phones are not a good combination..





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Wow, good luck. You sound kinda like I felt when I started my space station. Which also started in Sketchup, though you seem to be much more proficient than I was at that point.

The build looks great so far!

Excellent build and thanks for sharing your process!

Don't forget to edge!

*sudders* Yeah, I only had a black marker pen at work where I, er, totally didn't spend a lot of time making this. So the posts have been edged but the wall and floor sections will need brown and grey and possibly green, so I'll take some pens in with me next week

Where do you work that you have that much free time Drop me a line, I'd like to work there. I'd probably get more time for my WWG stuff than I do right now, lol. Anyway, nice work and ambitious start. Looking forward to more progress pics. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying about the stairs slotting into the posts. Could you post some pics and perhaps elaborate a bit?

Darn that looks nice, there are things I want to steal from this build.

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing the pictures as you proceed.

Awesome build! Great pics. Can't wait to see the progress after edging.

Looking great so far (and I'm a in deep shade of green over the time you have for building).

While you'll probably get this finished before TITAN III coems out, you might want to add any specific things you want to the Titan engineering/hangar set request thread in the TLX Boosters Forum.

Excuse the rather simple image but it's early here. I can take a picture of the stairs when I go back to work next week:



As for having the time at work, I've been lucky this week. It's half term so my family are away, most of my colleagues are on holiday and so are most of my customers too! Next week my construction will be limited to lunch breaks and the hours I can get to myself by arriving early

Great looking build!

This looks like a Booster or a Titan III request . Wonder if I can do that with HVS stairs and Ramp

Looks great so far. You've given me ideas for things I'm going to build.

WEEK 2

Okay so I got a lot of cutting done over the weekend and now I have a dozen 6x6 risers, and most of the unmodified floors and walls I will need. Also realised over the weekend that the landing pad "tile" is probably going to be too small. Will give this more thought and probably just make it longer so I dont have to adjust my build too much.

Today I didn't have a lot of time for building, what with everyone being back from holiday here at work.. so my lunch break and the gap between work ending and my D&D session starting was filled with Photoshop work. Here's the WIP of my 3" post to post connector. I was hoping to have it done before I left but I guess I will have to finish it off tomorrow.

Hmm that's weird. That pic looks very green in Chrome, and doesn't work at all in Explorer..

Ah, there we go, all fixed.

Ok, got the stair thing now. That's a good idea. Liking the p2p connector too!

I like this lots! Hope you enjoy Titan Control.

I like it! Some great ideas there, I like the stairs connector idea.

Oh yeah, I'm already thinking that the little control room area I had planned for my shuttle bay is going to get a LOT bigger!

Anyway, finished the 3" post to post connectors today. Bad lighting and zero camera skillz means the following pictures wont be all that sharp, but it's showing two of the test posts I made earlier today. Since then I exaggerated some of the shadows to make them stand out more.

Edit: Got rid of these pictures because they were pretty naff.

I'll try and take some more tomorrow in better light.. next up, the 6" connectors..

2 things. 1, the stairs. Why aren't they all marked up like that in the first place? That's genius! Have a gold star!

2, the scope of the build! It's wonderful! Assuming you don't kitbash too much stuff, any chance you could put the build together in the TLX planner?

3. Buy Control now! One thing it doesn't have is walls with one side plain, the other side console/screens so I find putting 2 walls together into the same slot solves that one until I can mod some walls myself.

4. School holidays are great - looking forward to the quiet stretch we get over the summer, see if I can scale my build up from 15mm to 25mm... Or do a monster 15mm manor house with Thoumonts.

Hehe sure, I'll get a copy of the TLX planner and see how it looks. Most of the modified ground tiles can be represented by regular tiles or perhaps some of the new tiles from Control since they look different enough.

And.. I got Titan Control the day it came out - but I'll hold off adding it to this build until the shuttle bay itself is complete. Then I can see this thing sprawling out of control very quickly. My wife is gonna go nuts

Okay, here are some better pics of yesterdays connectors. These are still the test ones from yesterday as I haven't had time to print and make the slightly nicer ones I finished up. But I did get the double height 3" and 6" walls done in Photoshop today, despite it's best efforts to thwart me..

This is looking really good, think my next build will be a sci-fi one.

Ah, man. I really need to finish my streets build so I can make some Titan!

Looking good

Looks very nice.

Great start.

Ok this has gone far enough that I added this to the index thread. Hope to see more from this build